Look inside the showcase apartment

"In designing these interiors I imagined a ride on the orient express," says designer Matthew Patrick Smyth, who employed a mix of deep color and bold pattern in fabrics and wall-coverings as a backdrop for objects both exotic and classical.

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Incorporate an Element of Surprise

In the kitchen, first-time dinner guests are sure to be charmed by Jenn-Air's stylish Perimetric hood, which clears the air of all culinary vapors while making a bold architectural statement.

In other words, repurpose, repurpose, repurpose. To make a statement in the master bedroom, Smyth fashioned an ornate 19th-century door frame into a headboard, fitting it with a gray mirror and mounting it with a Venetian painting, then flanking it with lamps from Hudson Valley Lighting.